perpetual brainrot machine

so the sans we're seeing in DELTARUNE actually isn't the same sans that we met in UNDERTALE, because that guy isn't from DELTARUNE, he's from the "original game." Sans Undertale is actually Sans Unaltered and Sans Deltarune is a copy of Sans Unaltered. the sans of DELTARUNE isn't actually going to UNDERTALE The Game That Released In 2015 because that was a one way trip and now the door is shut and locked and it's not opening again. the sans of DELTARUNE might go somewhere else, but not to that specific instance of UNDERTALE. the overarching history of "proto-deltarune," UNDERTALE, and DELTARUNE is linear and the history itself doesn't change

this is where you potentially get the difference between "Dess Deltarune" and a hypothetical "Dess Unaltered" -- they're based on "snapshots" taken at different points in history. Dess Deltarune was simply born and raised entirely within the larger "copy" of an entire world and has no inherent awareness of any prior iteration, while Dess Unaltered might be a direct continuation of the "original" dess's consciousness, branching from a node dropped at the end of her life. Dess Unaltered might also technically be a "copy" (Dess Unaltered NEO? lmao) but would remember you're original games as if she were the same person who just woke up from a very long nap. this dess specifically is the one gaster might have known in his past; she wouldn't have just known "a wingdings," she'd have literally known This Guy personally and this distinction might be very important

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Pages I found online from a book apparently called How to draw Manga: Bishoujo Around the World by Hikaru Hayashi.

To anyone who says you can't draw Black features in an anime style

Imagine being dante. all you can do is say how sorry you are and blame yourself and be lectured by those you are meant to be watching over. all you can do is stand back and watch and hope they make it this time, and wonder if its a little selfish to wait before rewinding the clock. these are the only people that can understand you, and all you can do is say you are sorry for consistently letting them down. and all they can do is forgive you! all they can do is nod and say they understand, but please stop doing this. use the head you don't have, dante. you need to know better, dante. you need to be stronger, dante. its ok, dante, even though its really not, all you can say is im so sorry and i didn't know and all we can do is pity you.

uaaa i was very inspired by the notes.. you articulated my feelings in drawing such a creature with many bows quite well